The people were utterly amazed at his teaching, because he was teaching them like one with authority, and not like their scribes.

So the man got up, immediately picked up his mat, and went out in front of all of them. As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God as they kept on saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

Some people are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. When they hear it, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

Others are like the seeds sown on the stony ground. When they hear the word, at once they joyfully accept it,

Still others are like the seeds sown among the thorn bushes. These are the people who hear the word,

Others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, accept it, and produce crops 30, 60, or 100 times what was sown."

He was also saying, "The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seeds on the ground.

He was also saying, "How can we show what the kingdom of God is like, or what parable can we use to describe it?

It's like a mustard seed planted in the ground. Although it's the smallest of all the seeds on earth,

With many other parables like these, Jesus kept speaking his message to them according to their ability to understand.

Others were saying, "He is Elijah." Still others were saying, "He is a prophet like one of the other prophets."

because Herod was afraid of John. He knew that John was a righteous and holy man, and so he protected him. Whenever he listened to John, he did much of what he said. In fact, he liked listening to him.

When he got out of the boat, he saw a large crowd. He had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

You are destroying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other things like that."

The man looked up and said, "I see people, but they look like trees walking around."

The spirit screamed, shook the child violently, and came out. The boy was like a corpse, and many said that he was dead.

"Whoever welcomes a child like this in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me."

John told Jesus, "Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name. We tried to stop him, because he wasn't a follower like us."

When Jesus saw this, he became furious and told them, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of God belongs to people like these.

Jesus called his disciples and told them, "You know that those who are recognized as rulers among the unbelievers lord it over them, and their superiors act like tyrants over them.

When people rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.

As he taught, he said, "Beware of the scribes! They like to walk around in long robes, to be greeted in the marketplaces,

It's like a man who went on a trip. As he left home, he put his servants in charge, each with his own work, and he ordered the doorkeeper to be alert.

Irritated, some who were there asked one another, "Why was the perfume wasted like this?

When Jesus' parents saw him, they were shocked. His mother asked him, "Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been worried sick looking for you!"

A disciple is not better than his teacher. But everyone who is fully-trained will be like his teacher.

I will show you what everyone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them.

They are like a person building a house, who dug a deep hole to lay the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the floodwaters pushed against that house but couldn't shake it, because it had been founded on the rock.

But the person who hears what I say but doesn't act on it is like someone who built a house on the ground without any foundation. When the floodwaters pushed against it, that house quickly collapsed, and the resulting destruction of that house was extensive."

They're like little children who sit in the marketplace and shout to each other, "A wedding song we played for you, the dance you all did scorn. A woeful dirge we chanted, too, but then you would not mourn.'

John said, "Master, we saw someone driving out demons in your name. We tried to stop him, because he wasn't a follower like us."

Get going! See, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

He told them, "I watched Satan falling from heaven like lightning.

How terrible it will be for you! You are like unmarked graves people walk on them without realizing it."

So if you can't do a small thing like that, why worry about other things?

Consider how the lilies grow. They don't work or spin yarn, but I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them.

Be like people who are waiting for their master to return from a wedding. As soon as he arrives and knocks, they will open the door for him.

He asked them, "Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all the other Galileans because they suffered like this?

So Jesus went on to say, "What is the kingdom of God like? What can I compare it to?

It is like a mustard seed that someone took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches."

It's like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened."

I don't deserve to be called your son anymore. Treat me like one of your hired men."'

But he answered his father, "Listen! All these years I've worked like a slave for you. I've never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you've never given me so much as a young goat for a festival so I could celebrate with my friends.

The day when the Son of Man is revealed will be like that.

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, "O God, I thank you that I'm not like other people thieves, dishonest people, adulterers, or even this tax collector.

Jesus, however, called for the children and said, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of God belongs to people like these.

Nor can they die anymore, because they are like the angels and, since they share in the resurrection, are God's children.

"Beware of the scribes! They like to walk around in long robes and love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.

like a trap, because it will come on everyone who lives on the face of the earth.

But you are not to do so. On the contrary, the greatest among you should become like the youngest, and the one who leads should become like the one who serves.

"Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has asked permission to sift all of you like wheat,

In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like large drops of blood falling on the ground.

John also testified, "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.

and didn't need anyone to tell him what people were like, because he himself knew what was in every person.

Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

Moreover, the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen what he looks like,

The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like that!"

You don't know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I don't know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and keep his word.

Some were saying, "It's him," while others were saying, "No, but it's someone like him." But he himself kept saying, "It's me!"

If this man were not from God, he couldn't do anything like that."

If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our Temple and our nation."

They went to Philip (who was from Bethsaida in Galilee) and told him, "Sir, we would like to see Jesus."

I'm not going to forsake you like orphans. I will come back to you.

Unless a person abides in me, he is thrown away like a pruned branch and dries up. People gather such branches, throw them into a fire, and they are burned up.

Jesus told him, "Feed my sheep. "Truly, I tell you emphatically, when you were young, you would fasten your belt and go wherever you liked. But when you get old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten your belt and take you where you don't want to go."

beginning when he was baptized by John until the day he was taken up from us. Therefore, someone like this must become a witness with us to his resurrection."

Suddenly, a sound like the roar of a mighty windstorm came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated, and one rested on each of them.

"And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance like your leaders.

"The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to everything he tells you. Any person who will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

Then everyone who was seated in the Council glared at him and saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

You don't want to kill me like you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?'

This was the passage of Scripture he was reading: "Like a sheep he was led away to be slaughtered, and like a lamb is silent before its shearer, so he does not open his mouth.

All at once something like scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again.

and saw heaven open and something like a large linen sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the ground.

"I was in the town of Joppa praying when in a trance I saw a vision: Something like a large linen sheet descended down from heaven, lowered by its four corners, and it came right down to me.

When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have become like men and have come down to us!"

"Men, why are you doing this? We are merely human beings with natures like yours. We are telling you the good news so you'll turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.

It sounds rather strange to our ears, and we would like to know what it means."

So if we are God's children, we shouldn't think that the divine being is like gold, silver, or stone, or is an image carved by humans using their own imagination and skill.

In every way I showed you that by working hard like this we should help the weak and remember the words that the Lord Jesus himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

the tribune ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks and told the soldiers to beat and question him in order to find out why the people were yelling at him like this.

I was puzzled how I should investigate such matters, so I asked if he would like to go to Jerusalem and be tried there for these things.

Agrippa told Festus, "I would like to hear the man." "Tomorrow," he said, "you will hear him."

However, we'd like to hear from you what you believe, because people are talking against this sect everywhere."

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images that looked like mortal human beings, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.

Now we know that God's judgment against those who act like this is based on truth.

But God's free gift is not like Adam's offense. For if many people died as the result of one man's offense, how much more have God's grace and the free gift given through the kindness of one man, Jesus the Messiah, been showered on many people!

For if we have become united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

On the contrary, who are you mere man that you are to talk back to God? Can an object that was molded say to the one who molded it, "Why did you make me like this?"

It is just as Isaiah predicted: "If the Lord of the Heavenly Armies had not left us some descendants, we would have become like Sodom and would have been compared to Gomorrah."

For the authorities are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you like to live without being afraid of the authorities? Then do what is right, and you will receive their approval.

If his work is burned up, he will suffer loss. However, he himself will be saved, but it will be like going through fire.

For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display in last place, like men condemned to death. We have become a spectacle for the world, for angels, and for people to stare at.

But now I am writing to you to stop associating with any so-called brother if he is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunk, or a robber. You must even stop eating with someone like that.

I would like everyone to be unmarried, like I am. However, each person has a special gift from God, one this and another that.

I say to those who are unmarried, especially to widows: It is good for them to remain like me.

We have the right to take a believing wife with us like the other apostles, the Lord's brothers, and Cephas, don't we?

To the Jews I became like a Jew in order to win Jews. To those under the Law I became like a man under the Law, in order to win those under the Law (although I myself am not under the Law).

To those who do not have the Law, I became like a man who does not have the Law in order to win those who do not have the Law. However, I am not free from God's Law, but I'm subject to the Messiah's law.